Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism. Sharing time is a classic elementary school staple, and it can also be a great social-emotional learning (SEL) activity for kids with autism. You can use this as a tactile art activity if you’d like or as a science activity for elementary students. Sharing Time [5].

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

51Talk is China’s leading online English education platform. The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. Can you tell us about your education background? Working with adult learners is as rewarding as working with elementary-age students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2024

. – Following the success of the children’s book Everyday Superheroes: Women in Energy Careers , authors Erin Twamley and Joshua Sneideman are partnering with Enel North America , a clean energy leader, and KidWind , an international leader in clean energy education, to create Everyday Superheroes: An Energy Coloring and Activity Book.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

I knew early on in my education career that I wanted to be an administrator. My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. What I lacked was education on how all aspects of technology could be used to enhance learning.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. In some cases, technology decisions are made by school leadership in-step with a plan developed with educators and an accompanying budget.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Last week, I wrote about trends in school segregation in the 70 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

The teacher reached out to me, an education consultant recently hired by the school district to support struggling learners. As an educator, it’s easy to get lost in the day-to-day “administrivia” of making hundreds of decisions a week. Originally students were provided special education services based on the discrepancy model.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A small group of teachers in Milwaukee are trying to return to math strategies the district used from 2004-2014. First, there was a hierarchy of university professors, district administrators, teacher leaders and classroom teachers that bridged the needs of educators in the field and the latest research surrounding math pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. “It’s The science has evolved.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The elementary teachers in the room solved the problem quickly. But early-childhood and elementary teachers have the daunting task of introducing abstraction to their students: What is a number? Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I went to the store to buy some fruit.

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Philly Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2013

I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. The point is, teachers, students, their families and entire communities here in Philadelphia have been on a rollercoaster of education reform for over a decade ever since the State took over in 2001 and put in the School Reform Commission.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

Using Bulletin Boards to Differentiate the Classroom Environment by Jessica Mazone [Gifted Education Communicator]. link] [PDF] High Performance Learning Spaces – a paper shared by Stanford University in 2004 about their research into creating spaces where high performance learning happens. Blog Posts. Interviews with Experts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. To put it in the words of an elementary student at the 2004 Serious Games Summit, “Why read about ancient Rome when I can build it?”. Definitions.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

Entsminger, an elementary school principal outside of Chicago, says his district was not able to serve nearly as many children as usual with its summer program this year, and the reason boils down to staffing. Camps are trying to be creative in how they hire education professionals,” Rosenberg says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

I have a suspicion that these simple words—“every” and “all”—are often overlooked by the hundreds of people who make up an educational organization. These are the students often forgotten by the educational system, despite promises to serve every child. In part, it's because of the diverse group of students we serve.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

She had heard there might be a special announcement relating to one of her favorite education websites, DonorsChoose.org, and was curious to know more. I thought they were going to do something small, like fund every special education project or something—but funding every project? She was glad she did. I was not expecting that.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2018

How is this relevant to my elementary school-level classroom? Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley, the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. They also have made their approach available to a variety of industries, including education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. The iPad does not direct the education—the teacher does.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Here, find recommendations for articles, books and podcasts that have resonated with us — some related to education and others that extend beyond. Jeff While it’s not strictly about education, I’ve become an even bigger fan this year of the Hidden Brain podcast , which explores the science of what makes us tick. Bodies are changing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. In 2004, as a new Ph.D., was creating its own special education categories and definitions to prepare for the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975. to get things done,” he said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Glenn Gustafson, CFO of the Colorado Springs School District, talks to Christina Butcher, the interim principal of Queen Palmer Elementary School. If we didn’t have to pay all these pension debts, we could use it for other educational expenses.”. Related: While the rest of the world spends more in education, the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Arkansas’ LISA Academy public charter school district today announced the renewal of its partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 16, 2018

I have connected with thousands of educators. The last time I taught fifth grade was in 2004 , and I am so incredibly excited about spending an entire school year with my own group of young learners again. I’m lucky that I've got educator friends from around the world who I know I can rely on for advice, ideas, and empathy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

This includes the use of case studies, starting at the elementary level, which are standards-based, transdisciplinary, and give young people “voice and choice” in what and how they are learning. Lily, an Ithaca native, served as Principal of Northeast Elementary School from 2015 to 2018. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. Deborah Ptak.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

In today’s increasingly diverse and interconnected world, conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion have become essential components of education. As teachers and educators, we bear the responsibility of facilitating these critical discussions with our students. Be ready to explain these concepts in age-appropriate ways.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

One of the big justifications for gifted-and-talented education is that high achieving kids need more advanced material so that they’re not bored and actually learn something during the school day. Their academic needs cannot be met in a general education class, advocates say. Higher Education. Choose as many as you like.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Join me Tuesday, December 14th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Deborah Meier, education reformer, writer, and activist. Event and Recording Page : [link] Deborah Meier has spent more than four decades working in public education as a teacher, writer and public advocate.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 1, 2021

By combining the small group focus with short cycles of improvement, schools can truly create a system where every child is receiving the best possible education. Administrators and educators need to look at their own actions and determine what role they play in student outcomes. Examine adult practices. Make learning collective.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The second illustrated book in this series introduces elementary students to 26 energy careers and shows how heroes around the world are powering our planet from the national labs to large renewable energy farms. “I One of the major outcomes of REES was the need to broaden and diversify the renewable energy education workforce.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Equity is one of the most overused terms in education—not just because most can’t agree on a definition, but because the promise of equity is often not backed up by action. In addition, are the equity goals reflected in staffing at every level—do the administrators, staff, and educators look like their students? By Stacey Pusey.

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